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we made a raft one weekend ont 3 corners owt of railway sleepers, 4 of um nailed together wi a couple of pieces of wood, just come from church sunday best clobber on, and off I went on this raft, stood up, pushing off towards the park side, the nails wernt very big, or the wood was too thick, but it came apart int middle dropping me in it, in more ways than one, it was a long walk to Island row, dripping every inch of the way to face the anger of mi mam when I got home, and I remember the spring at the top end near to the Thompsons yard, there is still a small bridge which the can row brook ran through, till it was diverted through the devils tunnel, and another memory, who remembers the horse which got stuck in a ditch between the tunnel and the Park, it took a lot of firemen to get it out, but they did, and last time I was down there the spot is still visible